For those of you who did not win, U.S. Wellness Meats is offering a 15% discount!
Click over to the store and use the code kitchenkop at checkout to get the discount. GOOD ON OTHER THINGS THERE, TOO, NOT JUST TALLOW! (Fine print: Valid on any under 40 lbs, excluding any sale items, bulk boxes, volume discounts. Offer ends 11/15/2011.)
Before today’s winner is announced, check out this short video from when John Wood, founder of U.S. Wellness Meats, went to New York City and spoke at Brgr restaurant: “All of this is what cattle are designed to consume, no grains, no need for antibiotics, growth promotents, or hormones…this is the type of environment that these cattle have had since birth and will have through their entire lifetime. They were born on grass, raised on grass, and will be finished on grass.”
The meat they talk about in that video from is a powerhouse of nutrition. I tell people often that I love eating pastured meats and fats because not only are they not bad for you, like conventional meats and fats are, but they’re actually packed with nutrition and SO good for us!
Soon I get to enjoy their steak, NEXT WEEK as a matter of fact! They’re providing steaks for the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense FundRAISER. (Sign up to go right now if you haven’t yet and read about all the fun we’ll have there!)
And for the Saturday evening banquet meal at the Wise Traditions conference, they’ll be providing eye of the round roast with beef tallow, Mmmmmmmm. (Sign up to go to the Wise Traditions conference now if you haven’t yet: Weston A. Price Foundation.)
Here’s the full menu for the Saturday banquet, where Dr. Mercola will be the keynote speaker (I doubt I have to worry that he’s seen my post, Dr. Mercola is really on my nerves, right?!):
- Vital Choice Seafood Smoked sablefish with onions, capers, dill sour cream on the side
- Cooper Creek Farms Fermented Vegetables
- Texas Style Pot Roast, Natural reduction Jus Pure Indian Foods Ghee
- Roasted Root Vegetables and winter squash, Pure Indian Foods ghee, cracked black pepper
- Grindstone Bakery Gluten-free and Copper Creek Farms regular bread
- Dessert: Red Wine Poached Baked Pears w/Cinnamon, JoshEWEa’s Garden walnuts, carob sauce
- Beverage: The Barefoot Cook Soothin’ Infusion Tea
Drooling yet? Wish you could go but just can’t swing it? I CAN HELP!
Just as I did for previous conferences, I’ll be Tweeting and Facebooking the whole weekend, and posting some too (if not during the conference, then for sure right after, depending on how it all goes). I’ll try to pop in to hear a little of the various speakers, and touch on the highlights, and then later anyone can get the conference recordings to hear whatever we missed. So keep an eye on my Twitter and Facebook updates and you’ll almost feel like you’re there with me! 
Now for the $100 worth of beef tallow winner!
The winner is Wendy, entry #185 out of 563 total entries, congratulations!
Please email me within 48 hours and I’ll forward your name and address to USWM. (Kelly@KellytheKitchenKop.com)
Consolation prize!
Remember that beef tallow is a healthy cooking fat when it comes from animals out roaming around on grass. It’s similar to lard (pork fat), only from beef instead of pork, and has many uses. It’s great for frying anything, and for using in recipes for baked goods. Even better, grass-fed tallow is a also great source of Omega-3′s (the omega 6:3 ratio is similar to fish!) and cancer-fighting CLA. And as I explained in my last post, when I priced it, I figured out that if you buy the large 5 gallon tub, it’s even cheaper than rendering it yourself!
So for those of you who did not win, U.S. Wellness Meats is offering a 15% discount!
Click over to the store and use the code kitchenkop at checkout to get the discount. (Fine print: Valid on any under 40 lbs, excluding any sale items, bulk boxes, volume discounts. Offer ends 11/15/2011.)
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I have tried to purchase some since you announced your contest and told us about it and they have been temporarily out of stock since that time and still are. How can they be offering a discount when they don’t have it in stock? I would really like to purchase some, do they know when they will have it in stock? Dona
Dona – Our apologies for the frustrating shortage! Our meatcutters are a bit behind this month, however we did add a few more 5 gallon tallow buckets to the store recently in case you still need to place an order.
Thank you. I was able to order it right after I read the note you sent me. I appreciate it and am looking forward to being able to cook with it.
Dona
John (USWM owner) also emailed me this response:
“Tallow demand has been blinding for most of the year. We get one turn a month to have it made from our fabricator and this is the week. We doubled last month’s request. We hope to have a batch in stock early next week. Tell the customer we will honor any discounts if they call the order in after the discount is off.”
We have area butchers, but they cannot guarantee that the fat I would get would be organically raised. Is using lard/tallow still better than other options even if it isn’t assured to be organic?
My advice would be, if you can’t get quality lard or tallow locally, then order it online from USWM. As I said before, the big tub is even cheaper than rendering it yourself!
Otherwise, you could cook with butter or ghee or coconut oil (expeller pressed has no flavor), depending on what you’re making.
Kelly
Just a question: is the 15% discount on the tallow only or on other products too? Because there are several other things I’ve been drooling over on the site that I would be thrilled to use the discount on too.
It’s good on anything! These are the only restrictions:
“Fine print: Valid on any under 40 lbs, excluding any sale items, bulk boxes, volume discounts. Offer ends 11/15/2011.”
Thanks for asking!
they are out of stock on their bones and tallow right now.
15% off counts toward other items, too, not just their tallow!
Lori, the 15% off is good on other things, too, not just the tallow.